I’ve posted some mean answers in the past, so I may share some insights:
Someone had a bad day. Maybe a client berated them, maybe they had a falling out with a family member, maybe they stepped into a dog poop on a rainy day and their umbrella got blown out before a passerby burned their hand with a lit cigarette (too specific? yeah, well…)
Someone decided to self-medicate (booze and weed seem to be popular choices)
Someone forgot to take their meds (high blood pressure can do it, the flu will do it, insomnia or psych meds will do it more)
Someone got a series of the aforementioned.
Generally: people post mean answers when their sense of empathy is either inexistent, or beaten into oblivion.
Once there are enough people in a place, the chance of encountering at least one person in one of those situations, quickly grows to 100%. If the place doesn’t actively discourage that kind of behavior because “engagement”… then you get the likes of Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and similar.
If I saw someone on a Beehaw community acting that way, I call it out.
That’s one of the reasons I support Beehaw potentially leaving Lemmy to do its own thing.
I’d rather Beehaw didn’t leave Lemmy, and instead “calling that kind of behavior out” got more popular on Lemmy instances… at least on the ones federated with Beehaw. But we’ll see.
I don’t get the claim about it being “impossible” to shoot it down while hypersonic, either.
So maybe it’s high enough that you don’t have any interceptor missile capable of reaching that altitude… but if you had one, that hypersonic ball of plasma is not “hyperluminic”, all that radio noise is going to light up on any radar like a beacon. Sounds like it should be easy to predict its trajectory, particularly knowing that it can’t maneuver much at hypersonic speeds, so it should be even easier to plot an intercept course.
It may by impossible to shoot it down from behind, or from a plane right underneath that doesn’t have hypersonic interceptor missiles, but from any position in front of the enemy missile… you could float a balloon onto its path, and hit it.
Also, there is lasers. They may not be great as an offensive weapon, or too easy to mount onto a plane, and need several seconds to burn an incoming missile to a crisp… but they do work at the speed of light, can’t beat that.
They usually keep the “seat belts” light on during ascent and descent because it’s when air pressures are changing (or you might run into a tree, or another airplane), while once at cruise altitude it is reasonably safe to take the seat belt off.
Right, and just to make sure, where do I apply to get on the chopping block with the golden parachute? I want to be chopped parachuted so hard, I’ll cheat and swindle all you want (wait… hope that saying this publicly didn’t disqualify me?).
what happens if snatch a drone carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars?
Run.
If the owner finds you… like if they have a camera recording and the GPS location… you might get some free bullets on top of it.
Spain has some relatively strict gun control. That doesn’t mean someone controlling the smuggling of millions of € in drugs, can’t pay a few grand for some of his “acquaintances” to fly all the way over, get his property back “by whatever means”, and fly back the next day.
I think the worry is less about growth, and more about dying out. Too much external input can drown out the local conversation, but also too little external input can put too much pressure on the members to generate content, leading to burnout and also killing conversations.
It’s a precarious balance between “so much that it gets out of control” and “so little that there is nothing left out”.
I navigate my “whiteness” by covering it in clothes… then getting treated dismissively by doctors because I “have plenty of resources”, “have your family help you”, “just change your whole life or you’ll be dead in 5 years”, and “have you already stopped with those silly ideas?”.
“You not believe Moscow Times? You free to go check, they have room for you…” /s
But seriously, I don’t even fully believe that Prigozhin is dead. The last trustworthy news I’ve heard from Russia, is from that one guy in Moscow complaining about how “rude” it is for Ukraine to launch drone attacks at night.
This is horrible and should be documented… but let’s be realistic: nobody will be held accountable as long as Iran has Oil and Nukes… and by the time it runs out of those, the people responsible will likely be long dead.
All we can do is hope for Cold Fusion to become a reality, so all the Oil based dictatorships would collapse.
Well, “Peas, frozen 3 eggs, scrambled Cheddar” would be weird… I hope OP meant “Peas, frozen; 3 eggs, scrambled; Cheddar”
Pasta with scrambled eggs, cheese, and sugar… is how I gained a lot of weight back in the day. Pasta has eggs and carbohydrates in it already, so it’s kind of like “Pasta+ with cheese”.